Knowing what a privacy nightmare all meta apps are, I’m wondering if there is an alternative option which is more privacy friendly but still has some of the ease and simplicity of some features such as messenger.
I already know there will be friends I can’t convince and thats fine, I may just have to accept that. But if I could avoid using it as much, I’d really like to.
I’d consider Signal to be the gold standard of secure communications.
You can describe it to them like WhatsApp, except it’s private, secure, not Facebook-owned, nonprofit so it can’t be bought or sold, etc.
Here’s the blog post that I share with my friends comparing Signal to iMessage and WhatsApp when they ask me about it.
It usually answers most of their questions.
Whole family and all friends on Signal
Going to echo the choir and say signal. It’s honestly the best chat app I’ve used. I’d recommend it even if it wasn’t encrypted at rest.
It requires a phone number. I haven’t got one. What else is there for people like me?
Both Telegram and Signal are decent, tho they require a phone number to sign up and are more similar to WhatsApp. Then there’s Matrix, but it’s like the fediverse, you must find or create and instance, they might find it complicated. Same for IRC.
Signal no longer requires a phone number to sign up for.Also telegram really should not be recommended at all if the focus is on privacy.Update: I am wrong, signal does require a phone number.
Maybe try simplex as that doesn’t require a phone number.
Decent privacy focused messaging app isn’t difficult. Signal and
Telegramare the biggest ones.Convincing people to join it is the hard part. There’s no shortcut there.
Signal is the way.
I love signal, but I would add to tell Android users NOT to let it replace their default text messaging app. They will have a Bad Time. Other than that, Signal’s great!
Don’t think that’s a thing since they dropped sms
Why not replace the default messaging app? Fossify has an open source messaging app, right?
To be clear, I didn’t say people shouldn’t replace the default messaging app, I said do use Signal to do it. Every time I’ve tried it’s a shit show.
Edit to add, since SMS was apparently dropped, it might be better. I take it nobody uses SMS anymore?
KIK
WhatsApp, because people already have it
